Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Bruce Ackerman
• Uri Avnery
• Peter Barham
• Alan Bennett
• Peter Campbell
• Julie Elkner
• Deborah Friedell
• Jorie Graham
• Jeremy Harding
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• J. Robert Lennon
• Mahmood Mamdani
• Ruth Padel
• John Pemble
• Barry Schwartz
• Roxanne Varzi

Contents

• Letters
  Neal Hodge, William Lamont, John Hyman, Gerald Carpenter, D.E. Steward, Marcia Pointon, Tim Allen, John Moisson, Barrie Lees, Tom O’Hagan

• Mahmood Mamdani
  The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency: Iraq and Darfur

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: Turner's Rigi watercolours

• Bruce Ackerman
  Meritocracy v. Democracy: What to do about the Lords

• Alan Bennett
  The Uncommon Reader: A Story

• Deborah Friedell
  Short Cuts: American Girls

• Jorie Graham
  Two Poems

• Jeremy Harding

  • Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
  • Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis

• Uri Avnery
  Next to Israel, not in place of it: What is to be done?

• John Pemble

  • Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain by Judith Flanders

• Ruth Padel
  Poem: ‘Slices of Toast’

• Barry Schwartz

  • The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950 by Avner Offer

• Peter Barham

  • History of Madness by Michel Foucault, edited by Jean Khalfa, translated by Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa

• Frank Kermode

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Bernard O’Donoghue
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Simon Armitage

• Thomas Jones

  • The Pesthouse by Jim Crace

• J. Robert Lennon

  • Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen

• Julie Elkner

  • Tear Off the Masks!: Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia by Sheila Fitzpatrick

• Roxanne Varzi
  Diary: At the Martyrs’ Museum